Hometown Hero
Garrett Booker from Memphis was the $100,000 scholarship winner in the Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway at the 2012 SEC Championship Game where Anna also competed and was awarded a $7,500 scholarship. A former high school basketball player, Booker used a two-hand chest pass technique to toss 20 footballs into an oversized Dr Pepper can in 30 seconds.
After the win, the personable Booker, a sports management major at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, told a CBS Sports reporter: “I want to thank God, my family for support, my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, and all the support from Barry University. With this check, I just hope I can change lives. Actually I will change lives.”
Anna and Garrett were among thousands of students nationwide who submitted entries in the Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway which happily ended with both winning scholarships and their photos on cans of Dr Pepper.
Last year, ESPN joined Garrett in Memphis for the day to learn more about how the scholarship is changing his life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppyjJiHqNHg